Results for category: Leadership

According to Amanda Ripley’s article, “Higher Calling: To improve our schools, we need to make it harder to become a teacher,” some American universities are beginning to treat teacher preparation like that of training physicians, pharmacists, pilots, and other professions by increasing the rigor of teacher preparation and making it harder to become teachers. Maybe […]

Professional capital has a fundamental connection to transforming teaching every day, and we’ve seen many examples of this at work in schools and school systems around the world. Here, we explore the powerful idea of capital and articulate its importance for professional […]

What is developmentally appropriate practice? For many teachers, I think the definition is that school activities should be matched to childrens abilities – they should be neither too difficult nor too easy, given the childs current state of development.* The idea is that children’s thinking goes through stages, and each stage is […]

The results of the latest MetLife Survey of the American Teacher confirm what many of us are experiencing and seeing in the depressing descent of the teaching profession. In the past two years, the percentage of teachers surveyed who reported being very satisfied in their jobs has declined sharply, from […]

This Participant’s Guide is part of the Principal’s Reading Walk-Through: Kindergarten—Grade 3 (PRWT: K–3) professional development module. The module also includes a Facilitator’s Guide, a PRWT: K–3 PowerPoint presentation, and a PRWT: K–3 Orientation PowerPoint presentation. The intended audience for this […]

Although the most recent report of the National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP) (Lee, Grigg, & Donahue, 2007) revealed positive growth in reading achievement for both fourth and eighth- grade students from 1992 to 2007, this growth occurred in numbers of students […]

As we begin a new school year, we think it is important to have our end goals in mind. In that way, we will be reminded of what we are working toward. With that in mind, we ask the following two questions:

Effective leadership for change at the district level has 10 crucial components.

Especially during tough times, how can school districts implement systemic reforms that will last? We have been focusing recently on how districts have brought about effective change in their schools. Our current work involves several districts, including, […]